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What with racist outbursts on "Big Brother", "Shipwrecked", and by the chief executive of Standard Life Insurance, Britain hasn't been portraying itself as a particularly tolerant nation of late. As highfive.me.uk is UK based we'd like to offer a big 'Anti-Racism' five to people around the world. The high five is such a potent symbol of friendship I'm surprised the people at the centre of these race rows haven't been slapping more skin as a means of endearing themselves to the public they've offended!

While I was looking for a suitable "anti-racism high five" image I chanced across information on "High Five a Muslim Day", it's definitely one of the more controversial high fives I've come across. Although "High Five a Muslim Day" doesn't seem particularly offensive to anyone; most of the sites I found information about it on seemed fairly bigoted, and I'd hate to see the high five become a symbol of intolerance. I'm sure all you high five fans out there will keep it real and continue to spread the high five goodwill. Peace out.

Today is HighFive.me.uk's first birthday. Just twelve short months ago the world was without a website devoted entirely to the high five. We've enjoyed making the site over the past year, and it's been good to hear from all the high five enthusiasts from around the world. If you've got any high five information or stories you'd like to share (or you just want to say happy birthday) send us an e-mail to e-five@highfive.me.uk.

There's been a recent update to the site - we've created new videos for the Jive Five and the Desk Five. These are probably our favourite videos so far (despite being of a couple of the more esoteric types of high five) we hope you like them too.